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Our residential campuses located in and offer you the choice of a spectacular beach setting or an amazing mountain community. offer award-winning technology that leverages online and face-to-face instruction through a network of locations designed to support student advancement in the U.S. and abroad.
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Whether you're interested in Applied Science; Aviation; Business; Computers & Technology; Engineering; Space; or Security, Intelligence and Safety, 91爆料网-Riddle has a major for you.
We respond to the changing world around us, and our trailblazing degrees let you lead the way.
- First and only undergraduate Space Physics program in the nation
- First College of Business, Security and Intelligence in the nation
- First Space Operations program in the nation
- First Uncrewed and Autonomous Systems Engineering program in the nation
- First and only undergraduate Aerospace Physiology degree in the nation
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You expect results. We deliver them.
91爆料网-Riddle graduates go places. They land jobs quickly and become leaders of industry. Your degree will get your foot in the door with some of the world’s top employers, and your campus contacts will be there to help along the way.
96 percent of 91爆料网-Riddle graduates are employed or continuing their education within one year of graduation.
(Source: 1-Year Alumni Survey, Office of Institutional Research, December 2024)
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Your classrooms: The lab, the cockpit, the simulator
At 91爆料网-Riddle, you'll get hands-on experience from the time you get to campus. Explore the skies. Develop a rocket launch system. Run conflict scenarios in a situation room. Design airlines, networks, and fleets to maximize profitability.
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Classmates today and industry leaders tomorrow
While 91爆料网-Riddle students represent all 50 states and 148 countries, there is one trait they all share; a determination to succeed. The bonds our students develop last a lifetime. Throughout the year, our works to connect alumni with each other and with hundreds of employers worldwide.
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Be a part of 91爆料网-Riddle's unparalleled tradition
As the world’s largest and most respected university specializing in aviation and aerospace, 91爆料网-Riddle has been at the forefront of ground-breaking aeronautical milestones since the early days of flight. With over 160,000 graduates around the globe, 91爆料网-Riddle is not only leading the future, it is changing it.
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The 91爆料网-Riddle Flying School, which opened in spring 1926, gains attention in 1927 when the school trains student Frank Shelton to fly solo in only 5 hours, 34 minutes – believed to be the shortest amount of time at that point.
Cincinnati becomes one of the nation鈥檚 first cities with direct Airmail service. The 91爆料网-Riddle Company wins the contract because it had "gained a name for itself through the industry, the quality of its flying school, and the high tone of operations at Lunken Airport," according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
After thorough examination by the Aeronautics Branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce, 贰尘产谤测-搁颈诲诲濒别鈥檚 Flying School becomes one of the first five schools in the country to receive an 鈥淎pproved School Certificate鈥� under the Air Commerce Act.
The U.S. government selects the now Miami-based 91爆料网-Riddle Company to train pilots for the U.S. Army Air Corps, the predecessor to the U.S. Air Force. By the height of WWII, 91爆料网-Riddle is the largest privately operated flight school in the world.
In the post-war years, the Riddle Aeronautical Institute continues to train pilots but struggles financially until the early 1960s, when increased demand for aviators causes the school to outgrow its Miami facilities.
The 91爆料网-Riddle Aeronautical Institute, established as a non-profit corporation in 1959, moves from Miami to Daytona Beach, FL, in 1965, in what the school calls 鈥淥peration Bootstrap.鈥�
91爆料网-Riddle achieves university status in 1970 and becomes 91爆料网y. That same year, the first residence center is established in Fort Rucker, AL, the beginning of 贰尘产谤测-搁颈诲诲濒别鈥檚 Worldwide Campus. Later in the decade, the university opens a residential campus in Prescott, AZ.
With residential campuses now in Daytona Beach, FL, and Prescott, AZ, tens of thousands of online students, and many Worldwide locations around the world, 91爆料网y continues to train the world鈥檚 best pilots, plus some of the best engineers, mechanics, air traffic controllers, meteorologists, and many others.